Network Rail Design Guidance
Network Rail Design Guidance
Our long-term relationship with Network Rail has involved many different projects, the experience from which informed our contribution to one of a landmark series of new design guidance documents published by the organisation, which symbolise and reinforce its renewed commitment to good design.
We worked alongside regular collaborators Weston Williamson Architects to prepare a130-page manual entitled ‘Heritage: Care And Development’. The document examines every aspect of historic railway architecture, and provides guidance to Network Rail staff and contractors on the care and adaptation of stations, tunnels, viaducts and bridges.
The guidance benefits from our wide-ranging work across the network as one of Network Rail’s framework heritage specialists, advising on everything from major station masterplans (Edinburgh Waverley, Paddington, York, Cardiff Central, Bristol Temple Meads) and multi-billion pound electrification programmes (Great Western, Midland Mainline, TransPennine), to Access for All schemes at listed stations (Garforth, Leatherhead, Hebden Bridge), repairs to surviving Victorian cast-iron bridges, the future of the oldest, largest and most historically significant operational swing bridge (Goole) and the recording of redundant signal boxes and level crossings.
Client: Network Rail